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A carregar... Trance (2005)por Christopher Sorrentino
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) Nikoz | Nov 20, 2012 |   ) pblitt | Apr 25, 2007 | samfsmith | Jan 31, 2007 | This book brought back those memories and more. Sorrentino really gives us a feel for those mid-1970s years, a feel that I, growing up in suburban upstate new york, certainly didn't really have in my own life. The sputtering out of the 1960s idealism and radicalism, the day-to-day life of self-proclaimed revolutionaries, these are the things the Trance gives insight into. Trance is a long read, but I liked Sorrentino's focus on the minutiae of day to day life, on his shifting focus to various characters, major and minor. The book really doesn't tell us much about the Hearst character herself. She remains a rather shallow and undeveloped person; of course that might be because that was her actual nature. Much more interesting are the snippets of life and description of other characters, SLA members, family and friends, victims. Trance is a long read but if you're interested in 1970s or psychological insights into small group dynamics, well worth the time. ( ) sabreader | Oct 22, 2006 |  RodneyWelch | May 18, 2006 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
In 1974, a tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then takes the guerrilla name 'Tania' and shocks the world by choosing to remain with her former captors. Has she been brainwashed? Why else would such a nice girl disavow her loving parents, her adoring fiance, her comfortable home? Why would she adopt the SLA's cri de guerre, 'Death to the Fascist Insect That Preys Upon the Life of the People'? Soon most of the SLA are dead, killed in a suicidal confrontation with police in Los Angeles, forcing Tania and her two remaining comrades - the pompous and abusive General Teko and his duplicitous lieutenant, Yolanda - into hiding, where they will remain for the next sixteen months. These are the months of Tania's sentimental education. Trance, Christopher Sorrentino's triumphant second novel, leaps from the pages of history into satire and myth. It takes the reader on an underground tour across a beleaguered America in the company of scam artists, visionaries, cultists, and a mismatched gang of middle-class militants who typify the guiding conceit of their time, that of self-renewal. performance, placing Sorrentino in the first rank of American novelists. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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